Shawsheen Tech Roundup: Track and field teams solid at Div. 4 meet

Shawsheen Tech had sev­eral athletes compete at the Div. 4 state meet last weekend in Hingham.

For the boys, senior Za­chary MacLauchlan had a big day.

In the 100-meter dash, he was 14th overall in 11.58 seconds.

Junior Zachary Rogers en­ded up 17th in the 200-meter dash and also competed in the shot put, taking 15th with a distance of 39 feet, 10 inches,

Sophomore Noah Brooks ran two races, taking 22nd in the 800-meter run and 23rd in the mile in 4:39.46. Brooks was fourth among underclassmen in the 800 and seventh among underclassmen in the mile.

In the 110-meter hurdles, the Rams had two representatives.

Junior Matthew Ramsey was 19th in 16.84 seconds and senior Gianna Zompa finished 27th in 17.62.

In the 400-meter hurdles, sophomore Sid Tildsley was 14th in 62.8 seconds. Only two underclassmen were faster than Tildsley in the race.

Tildsley scored points in two events,

In the long jump, he took fifth with a distance of 20 feet, 4.25 inches. Tildsley finished behind four seniors on the day.

In the javelin, Tildsley was eighth with a throw of 137 feet, 8 inches.

Sophomore Michael Ware also threw the javelin and was 22nd with a distance of 125 feet.

Shawsheen was third in the 4x100 relay with a new school-record time of 44.44 seconds. That foursome in­cluded MacLauchlan, Rog­ers, senior Christian Rai­none and junior John McLaughlin.

The girls also did well.

Freshman Alexis LeBlanc tied for 10th in the 100-me­ter dash in 13.11 seconds. She was the first freshman to cross the finish line.

In the 100-meter hurdles, junior Arianna Farrell was 20th in 18 seconds.

The Rams also had a 4x100 relay team compete, but the combination of Farrell, LeBlanc, Megan Steeves and Kendra Min­ghella were disqualified for a zone violation.

Sophomore Makayla No­lan scored in the shot put, taking eighth with a distance of 31 feet, 9.5 inches. She had the best throw among underclassmen in the event.

Two Rams competed in the discus.

Senior Lindsay Frontain was 16th with a distance of 82 feet and Nolan was 17th with a throw of 80-11.

SOFTBALL

Senior pitcher Mia Bisso of Tewksbury and the Shaw­sheen Tech softball team certainly finished the season strong.

With a 5-10 record and hopes of qualifying for the state tournament dashed, it would have been easy for the Rams to not be the most motivated of groups in their final two games of the 2023 season.

But, Bisso and her teammates had other plans.

On Thursday, May 25, the Rams finished their season with a 13-2 shellacking of the Academy of Notre Dame, a team that beat Shawsheen by an 8-7 score just five days earlier.

The game was tied 2-2 when Shawsheen took the lead for good with four runs in the bottom of the third inning.

The Rams then added another run in the fourth, four more in the fifth and two in the sixth to blow the game open.

Bisso pitched all seven in­nings for the Rams, al­low­ing just five hits and one earned run. She struck out nine and walked just one in her final appearance on the mound for Shawsheen.

Alivia Imbimbo led the offense with a 3-for-4 performance and three runs scored.

Frankie Reardon had an­other terrific day at the plate with a hit, two walks and three runs scored.

Haylee Johnston, Katri­na Raymond and Raegan Bowden all had RBIs for Shawsheen.

Senior Brooke Carlquist ad­ded two hits and scored a run.

Shawsheen's big third inning started when Kayla Mason walked, Imbimbo singled and Bowden singled to load the bases. All three runners would end up scoring without the benefit of a base hit as did Rear­don, who walked and then eventually came around to make it 6-2.

In the fourth, a walk to Ma­son and a double by Im­bimbo set up Bowden's grounder that plated Ma­son.

In the fifth, Carlquist singled and Johnston reached on an error before a groun­der by Raymond scored Carl­quist and pinch-runner Sage Dingivan scored on a passed ball.

An error on a line drive by Imbimbo scored Mason and Imbimbo eventually scored on another passed ball to make it 11-2.

In the sixth, walks to Rear­don and Gianna Caru­so and a single by Carl­quist loaded the bases be­fore Johnston drove in a run with a grounder and pinch-running Olivia Max­well raced home after a passed ball.

Prior to its win over No­tre Dame, Shawsheen beat Haverhill by a 10-2 score.

The game was actually much closer than the final score would indicate as the Hillies led by a 2-1 score after four innings before the Rams erupted for nine runs in the top of the fifth.

The big inning started with a double by Bowden and walks to Reardon and Caruso to load the bases with nobody out.

With one out, Bisso reach­ed on an error, scoring Reardon to tie the game.

Another error on a groun­der by Johnston scored Lindsay Scalese.

Carlquist scored on a pas­­sed ball to make it 4-2 be­fore three straight walks to Anna Warford, Mason and Imbimbo drove in two more runs.

A passed ball scored War­ford and Bowden made it 8-2 with a grounder that plated Mason.

Imbimbo stole home to make it 9-2 and a single by Scalese scored Reardon for an eight-run advantage.

Bisso had another solid day of pitching, tossing five innings and striking out 10 while walking only two.

Bowden had two hits on the day while Mason, Rear­don and Caruso all walked twice.

Shawsheen finished 39th in the Div. 3 state power rankings, just a few spots away from a playoff berth.

BASEBALL

The Shawsheen Tech base­ball team finished the regular season with a six-game winning streak, topping Wilmington by a 7-1 score to end the year with a 17-3 record.

The Rams will next participate in the state's vo­cational tournament be­fore starting play in the MIAA state tournament later this week.

Shawsheen will likely play in the vocational semifinals on Wednesday.

The Rams avenged a 4-3 loss to Wilmington earlier in the season with its win last Thursday.

Senior Aiden MacLeod pitched a complete-game, 1-hitter for the Rams. He struck out six.

The game was tight throughout as the teams were scoreless after three innings.

In the fourth, Mike Ma­selli led off with a double and MacLeod reached on an error before Brody Am­enkowicz scored both with a base hit .

The Wildcats scored once in the top of the sixth, making it 2-1, but Shaw­sheen would bust things open in the home half of the frame with five runs.

The Rams loaded the ba­ses with two outs in the sixth before Lukas Poirier drew a walk, forcing home a run.

Senior Mavrick Bourdeau then laced a two-run single up the middle to make it 5-1. A WHS error allowed two more runs to come home.

In a 10-5 win against Blue Hills Regional on Wednes­day, the Rams scored sev­en runs in the first two innings to take the lead for good.

Senior Nick Gagnon was the winning pitcher with 3.1 innings of solid relief while six different players had at least one RBI.

MacLeod, Maselli, Dyl­lon Pratt and Amenko­wicz all had two RBIs apiece, Nate Galanis had two hits, scored three times and drove in a run and Bourdeau had three hits, scored twice and had an RBI.

Last Tuesday, Shawsheen defeated Arlington Catho­lic, 7-2.

The battery of senior pitcher Conlen Powell and sophomore catcher Robbie Welch had another solid effort. Powell didn't allow an earned run in a complete-game effort.

The southpaw struck out seven and allowed seven hits.

A three-run fifth inning was key to the win for Shaw­sheen.

Pratt was one of the of­fensive heroes for the Rams with two doubles including a three-run shot in the fifth that emptied the bases.

Galanis also had a pair of hits and an RBI while MacLeod drove in two runs.

Maselli scored two times and Poirier and Amenko­wicz both had a hit and a run scored.

TENNIS

The Shawsheen Tech ten­nis team ended its season much like it spent most of it, winning.

At the year-end Common­wealth Athletic Confer­ence tournament, the Rams won four championships.

In boys doubles, Bobby Dodge and Trevor Engel, who played singles through­out the season, won the championship against Ram teammates Nate Barnes and Will LaMonica.

Dodge and Engel won their first match by a 6-4 score before topping the top-seeded team from Mys­tic Valley, 8-5, in the semifinals.

Barnes and LaMonica won their first two matches by respective scores of 6-2 and 8-3.

In the all-Shawsheen fi­nal, Dodge and Engel won a tight battle over Barnes and LaMonica, 8-4.

In girls doubles, Shaw­sheen's Jasmine Johan­sen and Faith Martin, the top seeded team, had a first-round bye before an 8-0 win over a team from Greater Lawrence in the semifinals.

In the championship match, the Ram tandem beat Fellowship's Chloe Callahan and Isobel Calla­han by an 8-2 score.

In mixed doubles, Shaw­sheen had a terrific run at the championship before falling to the tournament's top seed in the finals, 9-7.

Jake Metcalfe and Gab­by DiSalvo represented the Rams and won their first two matches by identical 6-1 scores.

Unfortunately, Shaw­sheen's other mixed team, Christian Rivera and Oli­via Bongiovanni, were on the same side of the draw. Rivera and Bongiovanni won their first match, 6-3, before having to face their teammates in the semifinals.

Metcalfe and DiSalvo de­feated Rivera and Bongio­vanni in the semis, 8-2.

Greater Lowell's Avery Dube and Sydney Geof­frey then edged Metcalfe and DiSalvo in the final.

In boys singles, Ethan Hines of Shawsheen reach­ed the championship match before falling to Mystic Valley's Jay Raj.

Hines won three matches before facing Raj, de­feating Northeast Region­al's Kenneth Suarez, 6-3, and Fellowship's Joseph Shumpert, 6-2, before a semifinal victory over Mys­tic Valley's Ethan Co, 8-4.

Sarah Johansen conclu­ded her memorable season by competing in girls singles and reaching the quarterfinals.

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